‘Pope resigned over daunting report on Vatileaks’

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Pope Benedict reportedly said he had seen a side of the Vatican he never imaginedGiampiero Sposito/Reuters

Philip WillanRome

Last updated at 5:21PM, February 14 2013

Pope Benedict was pushed towards resignation by a shocking report on Vatican
infighting that was handed to him at the end of last year, according to the
Italian magazine Panorama.

The voluminous document was the second instalment of a report prepared by a
committee of three cardinals into the source of leaks of sensitive Vatican
papers blamed on the Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele.

The report on the so-called “Vatileaks” scandal by Cardinals Julian Herranz,
Jozef Tomko and Salvatore De Giorgi contained “a devastating picture of the
current situation of the Roman Curia: the divisions between cardinals and
the resistance to